Remmina

An Open Source and GTK+ based remote desktop client for Linux-based operating systems

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Remmina is an open source and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the offset to act as a complex, powerful and easy-to-use remote desktop client application aimed for system administrators and people on the move.

Features at a glance

Dubbed “The GTK+ Remote Desktop Client,” the project is comprised of two separated packages, the main GTK+ application called remmina, and remmina-plugins, a set of add-ons for the Remmina application. Key features include a consistent and integrated graphical user interface, as well as supports multiple network protocols, including VNC, RDP, NX, SSH, Telepathy and XDMCP.

Among other features, we can mention a tabbed interface, very useful floating toolbar in fullscreen mode, viewport full screen mode, support for high resolutions, scrolling and scaling support, Avahi-powered automatic service discovery, support for connection profiles, which can be organized in groups, quick connection support, system tray area support, drop-down applet menu, and support for the GNOME and Xfce desktop environments.

It is very important to mention here that the floating toolbar functionality integrated in full screen mode will help users to easily toggle keyboard grabbing, cycle between different modes, as well as to minimize the main window with a single mouse click.

Under the hood and availability

The application is written entirely in the C programming language and uses the cross-platform GTK+ GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface. It is available for download only as a universal sources archive, requiring users to manually configure and compile the project prior to installation.

Supported operating systems

Remmina is a GNU/Linux application, which means that it has been engineered to work on any GNU/Linux operating system where all of its runtime dependencies are available (check the requirements section below for details). It was successfully tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.